CoreBlue respects your right to the privacy and security of your personal information. This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Core Blue Ltd is a "data controller". This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.
Our website may include links to websites run by other organisations. CoreBlue is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites, so you should read their privacy policies carefully.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We will collect, store, and use the following categories of personal information about you:
We will gather information in the following ways:
For careers at CoreBlue applicants we may sometimes collect additional information from third parties including former employers, credit reference agencies or other background check agencies.
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:
We may also use your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:
The situations in which we will process your personal information are listed below. We have indicated the purpose or purposes for which we are processing or will process your personal information:
Some of the above grounds for processing will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal information.
If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may not be able to progress your application for the position you have applied for, we may not be able to supply the content you require, or we may not be able to progress your careers application.
We will ensure that third parties respect the security of your data and treat it in accordance with the law.
Where permitted by law, we may transfer your personal information outside the EU. If we do, you can expect a similar degree of protection in respect of your personal information.
We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary to make a recruitment decision or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
"Third parties" includes third-party service providers (including contractors and designated agents) and other entities within our group. The following third-party service providers process personal information about you for the following purposes:
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Workable | Hosted recruitment software |
| HubSpot | Hosted CRM, marketing automation and content management software |
When applying for a career at CoreBlue we will transfer the personal information we collect about you to the following country outside the EU; United States of America; in order to perform our contract with you.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Personal information collected when using coreblue.com will be retained as follows:
| Website Visitors | Electronic | Personal Details: 36 Months |
| Content Download or Events | Electronic | Personal Details: 36 Months |
| Careers at CoreBlue | Paper and Electronic | Applicant personal details (including sensitive personal data): 36 months CV and Interview Feedback: 36 months Recruitment Information: 12 months |
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
Should you wish to exercise any of your rights please contact [email protected].
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access the information (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is another appropriate security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact [email protected]. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
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We have appointed a privacy officer to oversee compliance with this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy ntoice or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at:
Core Blue Ltd
6 Sandy Court
Ashleigh Way
Plymouth
UK
PL7 5JX
Attention: Privacy Officer
Email: [email protected]
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
Please note that this Privacy Notice will be reviewed and may be changed from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on this page.
Date of Last Review: August 2022